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<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">What is User Security in Enterprise Architect?</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">User security in Enterprise Architect can be used to limit the access to update functions within the model. Elements can be locked per user or per group. Where user security is enabled a password is required to log in to the model. Security in Enterprise Architect is not designed to prevent unauthorized access; rather it is intended as a means of improving collaborative design and development by preventing concurrent editing and limiting the possibility of inadvertent model changes by users not designated as model authors.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">User Security Basics</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">User security is available in the </span><span class="f_BodyText">Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, System Engineering and Ultimate editions</span><span class="f_BodyText"> of Enterprise Architect. It offers two policies: the standard security mode and the rigorous security mode. </span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">In the standard security mode all elements are unlocked and, as necessary, a user can set a user or group lock on any element or set of elements in order to make changes and protect those changes. </span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Under the rigorous security mode an Enterprise Architect model is read-only and nothing in the model can be edited until explicitly checked out with a user lock.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">For more detailed information on the security policies see the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="securitypolicy.htm">Security Policy</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> topic.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">User Security Tasks</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">A number of security tasks can only be performed by users with Administrative rights to the model. These tasks include:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="securitypolicy.htm">Security Policy</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="usersecurity2.htm">Enable Security</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="managingusers.htm">Maintain Users</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="import_user_ids_from_active_di.htm">Import User IDs From Active Directory</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="change_password.htm">Change User Passwords</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="setupusergroups.htm">Assign User To Groups</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="allpermissions.htm">View All User Permissions</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="managinggroups.htm">Maintain Groups</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="managelocks.htm">View and Manage Locks</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="passwordencryption.htm">Password Encryption</a> (for the third-party DBMS connection password; only available for Oracle and SQL Server Repositories for Enterprise Architect releases prior to 7.1).</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Other Security tasks can be performed by users who do not have Administrative rights. These tasks include:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="lockingmodelelements.htm">Lock Model Elements</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="lockingpackages.htm">Lock Packages</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="applyauserlock.htm">Apply a User Lock</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="discovering_who_has_locked_an_.htm">Identify Who Has Locked An Object</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="locked_element_indicators.htm">Locked Element Indicators</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="managingyourlocks.htm">Manage Your Own Locks</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1"><a href="change_password.htm">Change Your Own Password</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">User security is not enabled by default in Enterprise Architect; you must <a href="usersecurity2.htm">enable it</a> first.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_TiporNoteText">For a number of operations in Enterprise Architect, if security is enabled a user must have the appropriate user or group access permission to perform the operation. However, if security is not enabled, the user does not have to have access permissions. See the </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="permissionlist.htm">List of Available Permissions</a></span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> topic.</span></li>
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